More than 30 African leaders have just returned from Beijing after the triennial diplomatic summit with Xi Jinping, China’s president.

While the meeting, the first in-person event between Chinese and African leaders since the Covid-19 pandemic, took place on Chinese soil, symbolically it signalled the return of China to its continent of choice: Africa. ..

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